Behavioural Processes

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Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	67
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	34
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	32
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	29
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	24
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	21
Learning about reward identities and time	21
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	20
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	18
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	18
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	18
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	18
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	17
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	17
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	16
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	16
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	16
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	16
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	16
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	14
I call dibs on it! Chemical cues of intraspecific competitors potentiate food consumption in anuran tadpoles	14
Combined effects of reinstatement and spontaneous recovery	13
Overt physiological responses and atypical behavior evoked in adult zebrafish in the novel tank test by two acute ‘survival’ stressors	13
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	13
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	12

Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	12
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	12
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	12
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	11
Adapting rodent cued threat conditioning to planarians: Memory acquisition, consolidation, and reconsolidation	11
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	11
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	11
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	10
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	10
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	9
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	9
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Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	8
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	8
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	8
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Sex differences in locomotor recovery across mating contexts in Drosophila melanogaster	7
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Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	7
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Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	6
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	6
Rats’ preferences in the suboptimal-choice procedure are affected by the perceptual salience of the stimuli	6

Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
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Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	5
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	5
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	5
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Does boldness stamp a morphological mark? Evidence of decoupling in the invasive giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)	5
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	5
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	5
Prey selection and foraging behavior of Eriocheir sinensis towards three freshwater mollusk species: Mechanisms and ecological implications	5
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Evidence of conditioned food aversion in Japanese fire-bellied newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster)	5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
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The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	4
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Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	4
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Optimal prey choice in a daily foraging bout	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Cognition in captivity: Investigating learning, anxiety, and brain mass differences between captive and wild fathead minnow	4
Social hierarchy determination in rams: A comparison of different methods	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
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Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	3
Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata	3
The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	3
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SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research	3
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study	3
Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations	3
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)	3
Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map	3
3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations	3
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii	3
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Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard	3
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	3
A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles	3
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The ‘less-is-better’ effect in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.): Some data and a contrast-like hypothesis	3

The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future	3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean	3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females	3
Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice	3
Corrigendum to “Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals” [Behav. Proc. 231, September 2025, 105244]	3
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions	3
Playing or fighting? Home cage dynamics in crowding or social instability paradigms contribute to stress and reproductive impairments in adult female Wistar rats	3
Back to the river: Behavioural patterns of Eurasian beavers recolonising central Italy	3
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An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts	3
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Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year	3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	3
Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing	3
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models	3
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Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task	3
Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs	3
Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies	3
Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats	3
Assessment of ultrasonic vocalization-mediated communication deficits in AD rats: A social learning paradigm using conspecific drinking behavior	3
Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals	3
The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence	3
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Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment	3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	3
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes	3
The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)	2
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions	2
Developmental light colour influences adult phototaxis and locomotion in Drosophila melanogaster	2
Resource limitations: A taxonomy	2
Influence of RFID tags on Melipona quadrifasciata behavior: Effects on locomotion and food choice	2
Are domestic chickens born with predator recognition? Validation of a sound playback experiment	2
Modulation of dear enemy effects by male dusky warblers (Phylloscopus fuscatus) at different reproductive stages	2
The effect of adulteration with a bitter tastant, denatonium benzoate, on the reinforcing value of sucrose	2
The role of line-of-sight in operant experiments using food reinforcers in guinea pigs	2
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	2
Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups	2
Ambient light spectrum affects larval Mexican jumping bean moth (Cydia saltitans) behavior despite light obstruction from host seed	2
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Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans	2
Response timing of budgerigars in a turn-taking task under operant conditioning	2
Increased vigilance to neighbor duets broadcast from unexpected territorial boundaries in rufous horneros	2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction	2
Behavioral evidence that repetitive responses in a free-movement pattern Y-maze are associated with ageing-related deficit in working memory	2
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness	2
Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver	2
Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents	2
Why do Cattle Egrets forage with cattle? An analysis from an anti-predation perspective	2
Non-masking noise suppresses bird song	2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration	2
Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis)	2
A psychological model of the cognitive processes regulating exploratory behavior in animals	2
Sleepiness profiles in mice submitted to acute and chronic sleep deprivation	2
Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the ephemeral reward task: Success and hurdles explored	2
Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females	2
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First insights into social behavioral patterns between pairs of bait-attracted mature female tiger sharks from Fuvahmulah Island, Maldives	2
Tactile cues are important to environmental novelty during repeated open field tests	2
Individual and group behavioral responses to nutritional state and context in a social fish	2
The front legs of Sepsis flies (Diptera: Sepsidae) are stimulation devices	2
Power law and competitive model for behavioral characterization of incompatible spontaneous behavior in Drosophila melanogaster	2
Rats can spontaneously discriminate different rhythms: An investigation using an automated habituation-dishabituation paradigm	2
Effects of initial-link schedule on suboptimal choice are modulated by bias	2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration	2
Runway extinction in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): Instrumental or Pavlovian?	2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs	2
Modeling relational responding with artificial neural networks	2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish	2
Predation risk in two Patagonian Liolaemus lizards: Similar escape behaviour in different environmental contexts	2
Age and sex differences in behavioural responses of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) towards snakes	2
Social group during housing and testing modulates the effect of ethanol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior	2
Punishment-induced resurgence	2
When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects	2
Shortest path choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	1
Chronic restraint stress alters rat behavior depending on sex and duration of stress	1
Expression of exploratory activity of rat offspring depends on the expression of exploratory activity of their parents at the moment of mating	1
Automatic classification of dog barking using deep learning	1
Assessing effects of predator density and diversity on neophobia in Trinidadian guppies	1
Reduction in locomotor activity and freezing time: A dual measure for more accurate fear response in rats	1
Prospective control by reinforcers in human choice: Misallocation and bias, but not time orientation, influences reinforcer control	1
The illusion of pure reason in science: A cautionary note	1
Food avoidance learning based on swimming in laboratory mice (Mus musculus)	1
Nuanced effects of relative body size on social motivation in a highly gregarious catfish	1
Investigation of lateralization of socio-sexual behavior in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)	1
COVID-19-related financial scarcity is associated with greater delay discounting but not probability discounting	1
Does a high social status confer greater levels of trust from groupmates? An experimental study of leadership in domestic horses	1
Comparison of progressive hold and progressive response schedules of reinforcement	1
Injected serotonin decreases foraging aggression in black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus), but dopamine has no effect	1
Understanding (and appreciating) behavioral complexity of zebrafish novel tank assays	1
Social vulnerability, COVID-19 impact, and decision making among adults in a low-resource community	1
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